March 25, 2005

Curious George; windupornot. Baptist Creation Science Fair I can't decide. Are these people for real ... or is it a very sophisticated piss-take. Let's have a vote! (via B3ta.com)

1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life" Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.

posted by dickdotcom 19 years ago
  • Wow. Just wow. Not only does this whole idea make my stomach turn, the biography page of the people who post for this site looks like a whose who of the living dead.
  • been around for a while... i vote a hoax, but well done
  • Err, you are probably right. I just looked at the CafePress store. "LOL means Love our Lord!" http://www.cafepress.com/objectivemin/
  • Mefites seem to think it's a hoax: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27929
  • Have you seen the kids' page? It's a classic. I think it's http://objective.jesussave.us/kidz.html. Totally a parody. What's to vote on? Just enjoy it. (And does it really make a difference?)
  • Okay Wurwilf, I'm freaked. I wanted to think that Kidz page ("The Z is for Zealousness, because Jesus wants us to be hot for him") was a parody, but the link to Liberty University at the bottom made me think otherwise. I forget that these crazies are out there until this stuff reminds me. Yes, it does make a difference. We have to live with these nutcases.
  • Totally fake and really old. OMGs IS JOHN TINTOR FAKEZ?
  • waraw, a parody site can link to a real site; there's no reason they can't. Yes, there are extremists out there, but this, here, is a parody. They're two separate things. Besides, if you think it's funny, laugh. If there's a real threat, engaging it is much more specific than laughing at a webpage about a science fair (or the grumpy atheist goat, which I love). So what I'm fumbling toward is that outrage should be directed toward actual actions, and not a vague idea of What Other People Are Like. Fundies trying to shut down your local library? Stop them. Otherwise, what good does dithering on the internet about it do? You're tilting at windmills; it's not going to get anything done. Laugh, or do something specific about a specific problem. Anything else is spinning your wheels, in my opinion. I thought this page was quite funny, myself. I still like the Kids' Page more, but this was cute.
  • I'm pretty sure this site is fake, and is made by the Landover Baptist people. A sample of a banner at the bottom of the page ae "Convert the beatneck Atheist!" which involves bashing him over the head with a bible. The Zounds!Ministry has A "Bands We Like" section, with "Evanescene" un-bolded and crossed out. Again, on Zounds!, from the Zounds! 'pastor':"There's been some talkin' 'bout my mustache. Some of you think it's a wack dye job, but that's straight up not true." And then there's this image: http://objective.jesussave.us/johnbaptist.jpg, with the caption: "BOO! I'm John the Baptist, and these are my many exciting exploits!" From the Pastor's Corner, "Paedobaptism Is "Wack:" Towards A New Urban Waldensianism For the Young Generation." They have a "Ruby Matriomny: Will you be my Husband?" THONG. A "Radical Abstinence" THONG. A rainbow bumper sticker with "Remember Gensis 9:12-17." Having been to a fundamentalist Christian youth group, and having a friend who desgins the website for them, I think it's fake. Very very fake. -Kimothy
  • The Kid's Page is just priceless. Be sure to click on Mr. Gruff, the Atheist Goat. ("Coffee is my only solace.") Parody all the way, and I think they link to the 'real' sites to underscore how ridiculous the real thing is.
  • Jesus posted it. I believe it. That settles it.
  • "Hopsiah the Kanga-Jew." Brilliant.
  • It's a nicely done hoax. And it's been around forever.
  • Hoax. And for those who'd like to see what real fundamentalist nitwits do to prevent people from having access to the lessons of science and reality, look no further. From another article in The Chicago Sun Times (which I'll not link to, because it's pop-up rich and offers nothing more than the quotation I'm supplying), we get the news that The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has decided not to offer the IMAX movie "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" because members of a sample audience complained that references to evolution and the possible ocean origins of life on Earth were "blasphemous." Yeah, we have to protect people from fantasies like 'blasphemy', don't we? Time to break out the scarlet letters and dunking stools, too, I suppose.
  • Well, sure, coppermac. I know when I go to a Science and History Museum, the last things I want to be pestered with are science and history. It's all about the gifty magnets for me.
  • http://mcdougald.blogspot.com/2005/03/imax-part-iii.html The Fort Worth Museum reversed their decision.